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According to a piece published in The Huffington Post, The Runaways' manager Kim Fowley drugged and raped band member Jackie Fuchs in front of a room full of party-goers in 1976.
Fuchs, who is better known as Jackie Fox, joined the punk rock band in 1975, shortly before her sixteenth birthday. A year later, she has revealed, she was attacked by the band's manager Kim Fowley during a New Year's Eve gig in 1976.
The allegations have come to light in a damning indictment of Fowley published in the Huffington Post by Jason Cherkis, in which Fowley, who died at the start of this year, is accused of several other sexual assaults.
According to Fuchs' testimony, she was forced to take a Quaalude by a roadie, before being raped by Fowley in front of several other people. "I remember opening my eyes, Kim Fowley was raping me, and there were people watching me," she said.
"You don’t know what terror is until you realise something bad is about to happen to you and you can’t move a muscle," she continued. "I can’t move. I can’t speak. All I can do is look him in the eye and do the best I can do to communicate: please say no... I don’t know what it looked like from the outside. But I know what was going on inside and it was horror."
Fuchs believed that she would never go public with the rape, but was inspired by the recent allegations against Bill Cosby, as well as Ke$ha's claims that her producer Dr. Luke drugged and assaulted her. "They have to be making the same value judgements about themselves as I made about me," she explained. "I know from personal experience how all those things can eat away at you. They can take vibrant young people and turn them into something else."
Fowley recruited The Runaways after placing an ad in a fanzine, and co-wrote their biggest hit, 'Cherry Bomb' as well as producing their self-titled debut album.
